A One Mann’s Movies review of “The Woman King” (2022). “The Woman King” seems to be getting a whole lot of flack on IMDB for sanitising the history of slavery, since the film is based on real people in the West-African country of Dahomey (now part of Benin). Ignoring that furore and viewing it as … Read more
One Mann’s Movies Film Review: Star Wars – The Rise of Skywalker (2019). Not perfect, but a stirring and dramatic end to the nine-film main saga. 4/5.
It’s Star Wars, but it’s inconsistent Star Wars. (This review will be specifically spoiler-free:Â a spoiler section is included below the trailer video, but only read this AFTER you’ve seen the film). Star Wars is a cinematic event. As one of the “main episodes”, with a two year wait, “The Last Jedi” is especially highly … Read more
Social Media involvement in political manipulation? Don’t be ridiculous! Set in the near future “The Circle” tells a horror story of the social media age involving an omnipotent American corporate, pitched somewhere between being Facebook-like and Google-like (note, lawyers, I just said “like”!) Emma Watson (“Beauty and the Beast“) plays young intern Mae who, partly … Read more
The Detroit Sinners. Katheryn Bigelow’s new film should make you angry. It made me angry. As this year’s Selma (on steroids) the film is an ode to how incidents can get out of hand: at a macro level we see how a stubbornly chained-up door triggers a series of riots 50 years ago that reduced … Read more